Endowments; Prisons; Prisons--Law and legislation; Boston (Mass.); International Prison Commission; Koren, John, 1861-1923
Format
correspondence
Genre
Business correspondence
Origin Information
1915
Physical Description
microfilm, 16 mm, b&w
digitized microfilm
Note (Reel no.)
Reel 81
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Koren, John
President Wilson is to be congratulated upon having made so good an appointment as that of Mr. Koren to succeed the late Charles R. Henderson as the United States representative on the International Prison Commission. The Boston Post says: 'One of the foremost criminologists in the country, Mr. Koren has won note also as an economist. A large portion of his time has been devoted to a study of the liquor problem... He was married to Miss Katherine Orne Harnden in 1894. 10 years after he came to Boston to live. In 1891 he went abroad as a special agent of the U.S. Department of Labor, and two years later he went back to Europe again to study the Gothenburg system. He was in the service of the Committee of 50, chosen in 1894 to study the liquor problem in this country, and he remained in the position for some five years. At one time he was also a special agent of tho United States Bureau of Census. He is a member of American Statistical Association of which he was president in 1913 the American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology, the Mass. Civic League and the National Commission for Mental Hygiene...'" [SOURCE: "John Koren on the International Prison Commission." The Delinquent, vol. 5, no. 10, Oct. 1915, pp. 9. Google Books, https://books.google.com/books?id=k0rNAAAAMAAJ. Accessed 26 Oct. 2018.]
Language
English
Library Location
Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University